Whipping boy clearly is the coach from henceforth on.
A Drover's Dog would coach that team/squad into the 8, probably the top 4, and within 2 years (ie 2020) highly competitive for the flag.(read GF)
Anything less, and he, his strategic nous, and his 'legacy', is crap!
He will have some cover early,because of all the new rules, and, the time it takes fot a team to gel, but, anything less than 'extremely competitive performances' will see me (and a few others, I'd think....) reaching for the cat o' 9 tails......